Tags - How to remove unwanted ones. Solution wanted.

[Andrey Goreev]

Can you run exiftool -a -G1 -s /PATH/FILE command on one of the files and
see what the output is?
Let me know if the unwanted tag is under [XMP-microsoft] LastKeywordIPTC

Best regards,
Andrey Goreev

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Peter Mc Donough <mcd-mail-lists at gmx.net>
wrote:

> Am 18.01.2017 um 00:41 schrieb Andrey Goreev:
>
>> Hello Peter,
>>
>> I am having the same issue.
>> Do you have any other picture management software installed on your
>> computer?
>>
>
> I also use darktable, but not for tagging, only for rating.
> All existing tags are set with digikam version 4.x
> ...
>
>> If that is not a case for you I suspect that previous versions of digiKam
>> might wrote tags to more fields than digiKam 5. The list of the fields
>> where digiKam writes tags to can be found in Settings / Metadata /
>> Advanced
>> / Tags.
>>
>
> Might be, but why can I remove tags in digikam and they turn up again,
> when maintenance writes from files to database.
> If they cannot be deleted by digikam, then it should not be possible to
> untag them with digikam in the first place.
>
> I did a test with digikam, making sure the database and files tags (all
> writeable) are the same. I emptied and deleted the tags, then I deleted the
> database and the .xmps - then maintenance files to database - tags
> return(!).
>
> I probably need some exiftool magic to get rid of unwanted tags.
> ...
>
>>
>> Also, there is an option called "Wipe all tags from database only" in Tags
>> / Tag Manager / Sync Export which might help. I have never used it though.
>> Please do full backup of your collection if you do.
>>
>
> The most efficient wiping ist "deleting database" and that I did, without
> success.
> I miss an option: "remove all tags digikam can see".
>
> cu
> Peter
>
>
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